“With the opening of an Eatzi’s Market & Bakery in Plano stalled by the recession, restaurateur Phil Romano said Tuesday that he plans to open one instead on Lovers Lane in Dallas, within three months.

The new outlet, in the Pavilion on Lovers Lane shopping center near the Dallas North Tollway, would be the first Eatzi’s to open in the three years since Romano regained control of the market he launched in 1996. But he said it wouldn’t be the last.

‘I’ll grow in Dallas instead of around the country,’ he said Tuesday at the original Oak Lawn Avenue location as patrons sampled cornbread and ordered grilled salmon and Kobe meatloaf.”

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“Originally, he was going to open his next shop in the West Plano Village, a planned development at the northeast corner of Parker Road and the Dallas North Tollway. But the project has stalled, courtesy of the economic implosion.

‘When this economy rights itself, we are confident we’ll be breaking ground,” said David Palmer, executive vice president of Dallas developer Cencor Realty Services. He said his company had hoped to start work last year, but “what’s happened with the world in terms of credit and lending has delayed the project.’”

We’ll keep you posted on that and other projects as planners view the West Plano Village project as integral to the area’s growth plans.

Photo Credit: Cencor Realty / Above is a rendering of an Eatzi’s Market & Bakery set for west Plano.